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Don’t Look In The Basement – Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 9 / Film #2

I must open this review with a warning. If you’re only interest in this film lays in the hopes of some hot basement related action, you will be sorely disappointed. Within this review’s intro, I have literally exceeded the number of times the word “basement” is actually uttered in the movie. I’ve now said it …

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Midnight Movie – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 7 / Film #4

A ’70s cult horror classic gets a midnight showing and soon, film and reality collide as footage of the theatre patrons getting killed start getting spliced into the movie. Light on budget, heavy on gore. A worthy entry into the already crowded slasher genre; it deserves a bigger audience.

Would You Rather – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 7 / Film #2

People hard on their luck are invited to a dinner party which turns out to be a deadly competition of Would You Rather. Clever little flick with a very eclectic cast which includes an Oscar nominee, a Barden Bella, a Trailer Park Boy, a TV super-villain, a porn star and cult horror legend, Jeffrey Combs. …

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Beast Within, The – Quickie Review

Awesome, over the top, ’80s creature feature. Outstanding and utterly gruesome practical effects especially during the transformation scenes. Plenty of gore and dark humor and better performances than you’d expect in a genre film. It may be cheesy, but I love cheese. Nostalgic fun.

Jeepers Creepers – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 6 / Film #3

A better than most slasher film featuring an unstoppable, supernatural-like mass murderer. Creative back story for the killer and for his reasons to kill. Multi-layered and believable performances from the likable leads. Features some graphic set pieces and deaths. Great creature design.

F/X – Quickie Review

Above average ’80s action thriller about a special effects expert who is hired by the FBI to fake the death of a mob boss. Steady action with plenty of twists and laughs along the way. The main complaint would be the F/X expert’s partner is an appalling actress. I wanted to slap her repeatedly. Added …

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Dead Shadows – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 5 / Film #5

Gleefully violent and tremendously bizarre French Sci-Fi/Horror about a doomsday comet approaching earth resulting in human aggression followed by mutation. Movie doesn’t start moving until the halfway point when there is a 100% certified, call to your friends, WTF moment and then shit gets real. A Scream Factory release so it has automatic street cred.

Let Us Prey – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 4 / Film #2

This is a wonderfully gory film set one night at a small Scottish police station where they are paid a visit by a mysterious stranger. The always reliable, Liam Cunningham, is extremely unnerving as the stranger who is there to deal out justified malevolence. Definitely dark in tone with a biting sense of humour. Good, …

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Awakening, The – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 3 / Film #2

An above average ghost story set just after WWI in England. Some decent jump scares and I wasn’t fully able to predict the ending, but I had an inkling. Strong performances, beautifully photographed and a continually unsettling atmosphere. Not too shabby.

Willow Creek – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 2 / Film #4

Effective found footage horror film in the vein of The Blair Witch Project just replace Witch with Bigfoot. Similar to BWP, it takes a while to get going, but once it does, the tension is ever present. The suspense is effortlessly built with just the use of sound effects and speculation. Though not original, one of …

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